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After the Appointment

Kirk Duncan
July 23, 2024

How to Coach

Fun Pic…

This is my garden mentor…she is on the far left.

First time planting my own garden this year.

She says I am doing great and she is tickled about how my garden is coming along!

Yay! I passed the exam! 🙂

I have called her and asked her a million questions.

I didn’t want to try gardening this year just to have it fail or all burn up.

Having someone to talk to sure helps answer my questions.

Sure sped up the learning curve!

Coach talk…

After the Appointment

How to maintain the new level of Genius you just earned

Teaching, coaching and working with others is such a joy.

Yes, it also can be challenging.

The experience of connecting, collaborating and brainstorming can be so inspiring.

In fact, when you focus on your client and give 100% to the moment, you will experience an “uplift” or an “elevated sense of understanding”. You might know what I am talking about.

When you expend energy to help another person you tap into that hidden Genius inside of you.

You know….you can solve other people's problems, but you can’t solve your own!

When you tap into your Genius to solve their problem your mind expands into a large level of understanding….and as you rise to that new level it feels great! It’s a sweet feeling.

After the appointment…you will end up feeling this “high level” or, “your genius” feeling, start to decrease. That is normal. You didn’t do anything wrong, it’s your system bringing you “down to earth”, again.

You want to end up at least where you were when you started the appointment and not drop below that level. Unfortunately, if you are not paying attention…you can slip right past the “normal” level and drop down a level. How does that happen?

The sliding down the a lower level comes from unhealthy self analysis, negative self talk, judgment on self and nitpicking your performance.

You won’t nit-pick yourself when your energy is at a higher level… it only happens when your energy starts to drop… when you feel that dropping feeling…which is normal… and it needs to drop to get you back to your normal level of functioning… that drop feeling triggers your mind to think something is wrong with you or wrong with what you just did…so it starts to look around and find whatever is wrong. This stirs up the self judgment, the overly critical. And then as you drop… the negative junk that got stirred up drags you down past your normal level. Bummer part is… now this is the energy that you end up in. Not good energy to motivate you to add more clients or raise your price is it?

CORRECTION

After your appointment write down 3 things you did great at.
Write down 3 things that didn’t go so well.
Choose 1 of those 3 to be the focus of what to adjust for your next appointment.

By doing these steps after an appointment, you are now focused on a up-grade for the next appointment. You intentionally did a quick analysis and it ended up with knowing what to adjust for next time.

Now you are in control of where your mind went after your appointment.

This keeps you in your genius zone.

When you upgrade…

Your clients upgrade…

Your business upgrades.

Your desire to be a great coach and to change the lives of others gives you the power to step up and do what you must to be able to fulfill your purpose. Keep that desire ALIVE!

Stronger ~ Lighter ~ Smarter,